Lace Mosaic Bowl

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Object Name: 
Lace Mosaic Bowl
Place Made: 
Roman Empire
Italy
Accession Number: 
66.1.235
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 7.4 cm, Diam (max): 14.2 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
225-100 BCE
Primary Description: 
Colorless glass rods, spirally wound with opaque yellow, bubbly matrix with patches of silvery iridescence inside and out, rim finished with colorless rod spirally wound with deep blue glass trail; mosaic glass technique, polished by rotary grinding. Nearly hemispherical bowl shaped by fusing 51 lengths of spirally twisted glass in or over a mold and evening the rim area by application of a horizontal trail of colorless glass with a blue spirally wound trail; evidence of rotary grinding on unweathered sections of interior, exterior may have been ground and fire-polished.

More Info

Department: 
Ancient
Provenance: 
Sangiorgi, Sergio (Italian), Source
1966
Sangiorgi, Giorgio (Italian, 1886-1965), Former Collection
Category: 
Origins of Glassmaking
Roman
Color: 
colorless
yellow
deep blue
Technique: 
mosaic glass
grinding
fire polishing
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (1)

Flowers Which Clothe the Meadows
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1978-04-26 through 1978-10-21

Publications (6)

Study Days on Venetian Glass : Venetian filigrana glass through the centurie (2018) illustrated, p. 48 (fig. 5);
Glass: Virtual, Real (2016) illustrated, p. 114; BIB# 167899
Objects of Fantasy: Glass Inclusions of the Nineteenth Century (2001) illustrated, p. 44; BIB# 68390
Vetro Mosaico, Millefiori, Murrine (1985) illustrated, PP. 5-21; BIB# AI21549
Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1979) illustrated, pp. 177-178, #462, pls. 22, 40; BIB# 29547
Two Achaemenid Glass Bowls and a Hoard of Hellenistic Glass Vessels (1975) illustrated, p. 44; p. 41, figs. 14-15, #6; BIB# AI91019